Peabody Essex extends hours for viewing 'Turner & the Sea'

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Aug 12, 2014 at 9:42 AMAug 12, 2014 at 9:55 AM

SALEM - The Peabody Essex Museum has extended hours for the final days of its gorgeous summer exhibition "Turner & the Sea," the largest U.S. exhibition of Joseph Mallord William Turner's maritime paintings.

The museum will stay open until 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 27, and Thursday, Aug. 28, with a discounted admission of $10 after 5 p.m. PEM members, Salem residents and children 16 and under are always admitted free. The exhibition closes on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. You can also see "Turner & the Sea" until 9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21, during the monthly PEM/PM evening party.

The exhibition features more than 100 works spanning the 50-year career of one of Britain's most celebrated painters. Encompassing oils, watercolors, prints and sketches from the 1790s to the mid-1800s, this first full-scale examination of Turner's lifelong attraction to the sea follows the artist's evolution from precocious young painter to one of the most important, controversial and prolific masters of his art. Dramatic and roiling, sunlit and cloudstruck, the power of Turner's glorious canvases changed the maritime aesthetic and influenced countless painters hundreds of years after his time.

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